Comment 14 for bug 409819

I have discovered that under 'Sound Preferences' and the Hardware tab you need to select an appropriate Profile with the drop down menu. I went for Analog Stereo Duplex (it had defaulted to Analog Stereo Output) and then both my mic1 and mic2 appeared in the Input tab. I choose Analog Microphone/Microphone 2 for my web cam mic and it worked.

I did a reboot upon finding Sound Recorder playing up and all now behaves as expected. This is for Karmic and it all looks a lot different from Jaunty.

If you have the Sound Preferences window open and then start Sound Recorder you get this false error message:

"Your audio capture settings are invalid. Please correct them with the "Sound Preferences" under the System-Preferences menu"

Close the Sound Preferences window and Sound Recorder opens up ok. Choosing the Profile is also available in PulseAudio 'Volume Control' window under the Configuration tab.

So we still have some adverse 'features' but at least I could get it working. Sound has always been tricky with Ubuntu and I have never really understood why... inconsistency?